Saturday, April 25, 2009

A cover version after a long time. :) This song was suggested by Mr.Naushad. I have tried to do a bare minimum justice to the original rendition by none other than our Gana Gandharvan Dr. K J Yesudas Sir. Please listen to this and correct me :).

Saturday, April 18, 2009

After 2 months of bad time with Laryngitis, throat infection and what not, huh!, I am back. :-). Ya, it was a real bad time for me I can't believe that I have spent more than 3 weeks without singing a single line!!! Now I am undergoing Voice Therapy under Dr. Jayakumar, KIMS Trivandrum, I am regaining my voice and pace. I am slowly starting my singing again. I have tried Siva Panchakshari this time.Siva Panchakshari or Siva Panchakshara Sthothram is praising Lord Siva with 5 Slokas each starting with letters "Na", "Ma", "Si", "Va", and "Ya" respectively which put together become "Namasivaya" which is called Siva Panchaksharam (5 letters).I tried composing the Sthotram in 5 different Ragas - Hamsanandi, Darbar Kanada (based), Revathi, SindhuBhairavi and as usual ending with Madhyamavathi. Be it in concerts or in my practise sessions, I end it with Madhyamavathi Ragam, as it is believed that Madhyamavathi has the ability to wash off all the faults in the singing till then. So, that is an anticipatory bail ;-). I know some of the faults I have made, waiting to know more. :-). This can be considered as my second start.I am dedicating this as an offering to Lord Maheshvara, who has made me take this effort!Expecting all your prayers and encouragement!Gurubhyon Namah! Ohm Namah Sivaya!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The song Pranayam is penned by Roshan. He is one of the Directors of the News Paper “Morning Bells” in Bangalore. He has done couple of Malayalam albums with Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri. When I saw the lyrics, this is the first tune that stroke in my mind, and the song was done in 5 or 10 mints. I had only one voice in my mind, and I am glad that I got that voice for the song which made the song rich!

Balqis who has sung this song is in Dubai, doing her Msc in Medical Biotechnology. I got this nice buddy and blessed talent from the online friend’s forum www.shyju.com.She was the winner of Emirates star search 2002. She was semifinalist in Voice of Arabia,Kairali TV Gandharva Sangeetham (conducted in UAE) runner up and many more awards.